Advocates call on Liberals to fund Canada Disability Benefit in Budget 2024

Persons with Disabilities Minister Kamal Khera will need support at the cabinet table to push for a new multi-billion-dollar social program at a time when the finance minister has spoken of the need for fiscal restraint, say disability and poverty experts.

Minister Kamal Khera speaks to reporters outside Rideau Hall on July 26, after taking over the disability file from Minister Carla Qualtrough in the cabinet shuffle.The Hill Time photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

December 29, 2023

Six months after the Canada Disability Benefit got its legislative marching orders, advocates say it’s still unclear how ambitious the government is prepared to be to meet its stated goal of creating a federal social program that lifts people with disabilities out of pover...

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